Summary

The System Dashboard page or login page no longer shows Jira version or Node id

Environment

Jira Software 8.20.x / Jira Service Management 4.20.x

Diagnosis

After upgrading from Jira software to 8.20.x or above or Jira Service Management 4.20.x or above, user can no longer see the node ID/Name or version information in the footer before logging in.

• Until user logs in, on the System Dashboard page https://<BASE-URL>/secure/Dashboard.jspa you can no longer see the Jira version or ID in the page footer :

• Even if you directly hit the login page https://<BASE-URL>/login.jsp user cannot see the node id or version footer:

Cause

We no longer show the Software details/version/node id to unauthenticated/anonymous users. This was done to safeguard customers when there's a new CVE or security issue is published as common knowledge, we didn't want "bad actors" to target your instance by knowing the version you're running and whether it's still affected by the vulnerability.

  JRASERVER-70987 - Getting issue details... STATUS

The fix was to introduce the authcontext to the footer.vm. 

#if ($authcontext.isLoggedInUser())
....<footer details here>...
#end

Suggestion:

Considering the security issue the instance might get exposed to by exposing the software version information to anonymous users, we'd recommend not changing this behaviour. You can still find node id the user is connected to from the browser Development Tool:

Workaround:

However, if you feel this is absolutely necessary for you and you're ok with the security issues the instance might get exposed to you can modify the footer.vm file in the following way and you'd start to see the node ID even on the log in page:

1. Stop Jira.
2. Take a backup and open $JIRA_INSTALL/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/templates/plugins/footer/footer.vm file in a text editor.

3. Locate the following two lines and remove them and save the file:

    ******** REMOVE THIS LINE #if ($authcontext.isLoggedInUser()) REMOVE THIS LINE ******** 
               #set ($formattedCommitId = "")
               #if ($string.isNotBlank("$commitId"))
                   ## shorten the Git SHA
                   #set ($formattedCommitId = "-<span title='$!{commitId}' data-commit-id='${commitId}}'>sha1:${commitId.substring(0, 7)}</span>")
               #end
               #set ($formattedPartnerName = "#if ($string.isNotBlank($partnerName))-$partnerName#{else}#end")
               #set ($formattedNodeId = "#if ($string.isNotBlank($nodeId)):${nodeId}#{else}#end")
               <span id="footer-build-information">(v${buildVersion}#${buildNumber}${formattedCommitId}$!{formattedNodeId}${formattedPartnerName})</span>
    ******** REMOVE THIS LINE #end REMOVE THIS LINE ******** 

4. Start Jira.
5. If on Data Center, repeat the steps on each node.

 It might be necessary to re-apply this custom configuration after Jira upgrades.